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Blind Man's Mark Essay

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Sir Phillip Sydney in the Blind Man’s Mark portrays desire as though it is this sinister emotion that consume the person who feels it. He desires to rid himself of the feeling the descriptions that he uses to convey how distasteful desire is, and through his sentence structure. Phillips appears to have gone mad in this poem which gives him this desperate , almost pleading tone about desire. Because he has submitted to desire, the price of a mangled mind is what he has to pay.(6) Whenever a person desires something , and in this poem a lover, they become hysterical.Phillips conveys that the weight of desire on his mind has caused him to have an internal battle with what he wants and what he can’t have. Further into the poem he talks about
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